Russian/cryllic Script

I have a Russian course coming up in September for University, and I'm attempting to learn Russian cursive before class starts. This has proven rather difficult, because I can't find a whole lot on cursive at all, either in hard copy or on the internet, this is what I have thus far:

I have a Russian course coming up in September for University, and I'm attempting to learn Russian cursive before class starts. This has proven rather difficult, because I can't find a whole lot on cursive at all, either in hard copy or on the internet, this is what I have thus far:

I have a Russian course coming up in September for University, and I'm attempting to learn Russian cursive before class starts. This has proven rather difficult, because I can't find a whole lot on cursive at all, either in hard copy or on the internet, this is what I have thus far:

I am mostly self-taught in my Russian handwriting, so I don't know if I am omitting marks that are necessary for legibility or adding marks that interfere with intelligibility (is it okay to have an upstroke on an initial small и, or does that make it look to much like an м?). I also wonder if there are ways of connecting letters that I have written separately. I have, in general, an aversion to pen-lifts: when I write in roman, I only go back to dot the i's and j's; all other small letters, including t and x, I write with an unbroken movement. But in Cyrillic, it looks as if there is no way to join a small б to a character following it, and it seems to be necessary to lift the pen between an o and a following letter that begins with a little hook, such as an л or an м.

I find it very difficult to read my own handwriting in Cyrillic, no matter how neatly I write, unless I separate the characters: once the characters are joined, I find it difficult to distinguish tell where one ends and another begins. For instance, as far as I can tell, it is impossible to distinguish between ши and иш in cursive. My difficulty may be simply due to the fact that I do not speak or read the language with even rudimentary competence, despite dozens of hours spent trying to learn it, so I have to decipher most words letter by letter rather than read them as wholes.

Hi there. I don't know russian but I learn serbian and try to write with the cyrillic cursive which has a lot of similarities with the russian one.
I write almost the way that you do so your writing is very legible to me.
I also had this problem with б and it seems to me that the best solution is not to connect it with the next letter. I have seen examples where it is connected with the next letter with the usual upstroke but I didn't really like it.
I also have the same problem with o. If I have to connect it with a letter that starts with an upstroke, I don't make the upstroke and just keep the o's "horn". When there is an л after the o, I don't connect beacuse the horn is too high. The same thing I do with letters that come after в.
And one question. Do you connect a capital У with a ч?

Hi there. I don't know russian but I learn serbian and try to write with the cyrillic cursive which has a lot of similarities with the russian one. I write almost the way that you do so your writing is very legible to me.I also had this problem with б and it seems to me that the best solution is not to connect it with the next letter. I have seen examples where it is connected with the next letter with the usual upstroke but I didn't really like it.I also have the same problem with o. If I have to connect it with a letter that starts with an upstroke, I don't make the upstroke and just keep the o's "horn". When there is an л after the o, I don't connect beacuse the horn is too high. The same thing I do with letters that come after в.And one question. Do you connect a capital У with a ч?

Yes, they are connected. Every letter of Cyrillic handwriting may be connected.

Hi there. I don't know russian but I learn serbian and try to write with the cyrillic cursive which has a lot of similarities with the russian one. I write almost the way that you do so your writing is very legible to me.I also had this problem with б and it seems to me that the best solution is not to connect it with the next letter. I have seen examples where it is connected with the next letter with the usual upstroke but I didn't really like it.I also have the same problem with o. If I have to connect it with a letter that starts with an upstroke, I don't make the upstroke and just keep the o's "horn". When there is an л after the o, I don't connect beacuse the horn is too high. The same thing I do with letters that come after в.And one question. Do you connect a capital У with a ч?

Yes, that is just my problem with o. Writing Уч connected should not be a problem. Perhaps the model of Cyrillic script from which you learned illustrated ч by having it start in mid-air, as in this model (from Masterrussian.com):

Unless it is in initial position, I write the small ч exactly the same as a cursive roman r, starting from the base line. So there is no difficulty in writing, say, the capitalized word Учить thus:

Yes, they are connected. Every letter of Cyrillic handwriting may be connected.

Really? Please explain--or better, illustrate--how one can connect a small б to a following letter, or how you can connect a small o to a following м or л without making the o look like an a. Here is an illustration of what happens when I try to do that:

Despite my best efforts, the letter-combinations ом and ол become indistinguishable from ам and ал when the tail of the o is connected to the base hook of the following letter.

I just checked my language course and there is an example with о and л connected. They are written the regular way but so close together that the tail of the o touches the upper part of the л and this is supposed to be the connection.
About the б, I didn't explain it very good, you can see it in my other thread about cyrillic herehttp://www.fountainp...rillic-cursive/
In any case б seems much cleaner to me when not connected with the next letter.